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The Wilbury Theatre Group

The Wilbury Theatre Group (Rhode Island) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $845,527 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($298,270). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$585k
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$846k
Net assets
$127k
13/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 56%
01What it does

What The Wilbury Theatre Group does

Mission

The Wilbury Theatre Group is a Rhode Island non-profit corporation committed to creating the highest quality professional theatre that is affordable and accessible to the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Mainstage productions - Wilbury Theatre Group produced 5 in-person MainStage productions, each for a run of 4-5 weeks, as well as 12 part audio streaming program presented online and on the radio. Additional work around all of the productions included community engagement activities and education programs.

    $320,597 spent$88,865 earned by the program
    75% of program spending
  2. The Providence Fringe Festival celebrates small, independent performing artists and arts groups with a multi-day performance festival at venues throughout the city of Providence. More than 300 individual artists and approximately 20,000 audience members participate in the two week festival annually, and performances are held indoors, outside, and streamed via the internet.

    $106,865 spent$16,040 earned by the program
    25% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $427,462.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($223k) Expenses 100 ($180k) Net assets 100 ($53k)2019 Revenue 161 ($358k) Expenses 154 ($278k) Net assets 286 ($152k)2020 Revenue 149 ($333k) Expenses 192 ($346k) Net assets 270 ($144k)2021 Revenue 208 ($463k) Expenses 221 ($398k) Net assets 365 ($194k)2022 Revenue 309 ($689k) Expenses 307 ($553k) Net assets 419 ($223k)2023 Revenue 289 ($645k) Expenses 386 ($696k) Net assets 324 ($172k)2024 Revenue 229 ($511k) Expenses 314 ($567k) Net assets 219 ($117k)2025 Revenue 262 ($585k) Expenses 318 ($574k) Net assets 239 ($127k)
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Revenue (262)Expenses (318)Net assets (239)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $162k to $245k (+51%).

$58k
$162k
$245k
$292k
$311k
$250k
$187k
$183k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 2% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

81% of The Wilbury Theatre Group’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$43k
’17
$80k
’19
−$13k
’20
$64k
’21
$136k
’22
−$51k
’23
−$56k
’24
$10k
’25
1.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed1610101199910
Joined··+0+2+1+2+0+2
No longer listed··013201
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $3k → $158k.

7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of The Wilbury Theatre Group’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

The Wilbury Theatre Group leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

49% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund The Wilbury Theatre Group.

35%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 69% · 2019 60% · 2020 35% · 2021 72% · 2022 73% · 2023 48% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

22% of The Wilbury Theatre Group's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

The Wilbury Theatre Group draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 6 states in all.

NY
OH
PA
NJ
RI
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Rhode Island out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $372k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Wilbury Theatre Group has grown faster than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like The Wilbury Theatre Group

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Rhode Island

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 17%Fundraising 9%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

85%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Wilbury Theatre Group?
The Wilbury Theatre Group (Rhode Island) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $845,527 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($298,270). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Wilbury Theatre Group have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $845,527 in grants to The Wilbury Theatre Group, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Wilbury Theatre Group?
THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $298,270 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Wilbury Theatre Group find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing